Snip >Now you must make a decision as to how you wish to proceed. I will make >it easier or harder just how you look at it, by telling you about the >newest copy of MAXIMUM PC magazine that I got in the mail today. (June >2000). I do not always agree with what they say, and they have not sold >out to their advertisers yet, however they are power hungry and so not >every thing they advocate is good for the general public. > >Their lead article is "How to freshen up Windows 98 for a Clean Start", >which is fairly well written. Answers some of the questions as to why a >person would want to start over. > >Their Web Site: > >http://www.maximumpc.com/index.html > >has a starting point to the article on the home page, and has the article >on the site. > >Jack Upon scanning this months issue deeper, they also have a good, short paragraph on what happens to resources, a review of three firewalls, which goes with the use of OPTOUT, they do not mention ZoneAlarm however. Since it is free, that is part of why, also due to the time lag from inception to printing for a magazine of about 3 months except for emergency items or answers to e-mail they may not have even tried ZA. They review two other windows test utilities, they are updates of older programs, may be worth looking at again, except for the cost. Jack